Freeport High School - Voyageur Yearbook (Freeport, NY)

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M NISTR T O duty, at a free port. In 1790, one of our first important historical events was Presi- dent George Washington's visit to Long Island, and it is believed that he stopped at a home located in the eastern part of Freeport. The house was a one-story build- ing with a sloping roof, and had an outside stone chimney on the west wall. The log cabins built by our early settlers remained until 1783, and then frame houses began to rise. By I795, there were about 24 dwell- ings in Freeport. Our first post office was established in 1858. For some time prior to this date, Freeport was called Raynortown, due to the many families of that name residing there, but when the post oHice was established, the name was changed to the present one. The stage coach was our only means of transportation until the year 1868, when the South Side Railroad Company laid out our present line of communication oc- cupied by the Long Island Railroad Com- pany. Because of this new means of travel, Freeport gradually enlarged in population, and on june 18, 1892, a group of citizens met on Main Street to discuss incorporation. Several months later a certificate was filed in the Queens County Clerk's Oiiice at Ja- maica, duly certifying that Freeport was now an incorporated village. After this, Freeport grew rapidly. It has its civic, social, educational, and religious centers, just like any other community of about 23,000 population. In the Atlas, we read, Freeport, Nassau County, New York: On the Long Island Railroad, a residential sub- urb of New York situated six miles from Jones Beach, one of the most beautiful beaches in the world. And there you have it-that's Freeport in a nutshell.

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AS YOU HAVE READ, THIS BOOK is dedicated to our town of Freeport, and we're going to take a little jaunt through the community and note the things that make it such an interesting place. Our town began in the year of 1650. Before that time, the Meroke Tribe, a band of Indians, inhabited the region north of Seaman Avenue along the ridge of woods extending east to Main Street. At that time, nearly all of the section north of the rail- road Was covered with dense forests. Free- port received its name because, as tradition goes, just south of our town is Jones Inlet, a water route leading from the bay to che ocean, and trading vessels could sail through the inlet and land goods Without paying a

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Mr. Leo F. Giblyn, Pres. Mr. George E. Williamson Mr. Clifton B. Smith Mr. Otto Jensen Mr. Harold Pearson BOARD OF EDUCATION BUT THERE'S MORE THAN THAT, over on Pine Street there,s the Junior-Senior I-Iigh School. That's kind of a nice looking place. It started out to be a little brick building beside the cemetery, but ended taking up the whole block and they had to move the cemetery to do it. Now again, there are so many students that the officials are looking around for a site for a larger school. Yes, it's a little crowded, but they have two sessions now-a-days and, of course, that makes it more convenient. It would be largely due to the efforts of the energetic Board of Education if a new school were built. The board is very, very progressive. They are anxious to provide all the additional facilities that are found in any other community. In addition to the 8 regular class work, they have introduced such things as all the shop and domestic science courses such as sewing and cooking. There are defense classes held in the evening in our high school, turning out many trained workmen to represent Freeport in American industry. The BOARD OF EDUCATION under the leadership of Mr. Leo F. Giblyn also make it possible for all the sports and extra-curricular activities and programs to be carried through by providing for the fur- nishing of the necessary facilities for proper physical and social education. They give long hours of time to school problems in our town.